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...exercised options to buy 25,000 shares at $20.78 a share. The next day he exercised an additional 68,000 shares at $21.56. On both days, the stock closed around $36, which meant Lay netted nearly $1.5 million before taxes. He continued to be a huge booster for the stock for another month. As late as Sept. 26, Lay would try to reassure Enron employees that "our financial liquidity has never been stronger." But as the stock fell last fall, company employees were told that they would be unable to move any assets held in Enron stock into other securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Did They Know And...When Did They Know It? | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...already strapped for cash trying to keep its dwindling fleet of 320 warships afloat, to spend several hundred million dollars to buy the cruise ships. Taylor got language added to the 2002 defense bill suggesting the Navy finish the vessels and put them out to sea as a morale booster for troops. The clause reads that the sea service should consider buying vessels "under construction in a U.S. shipyard" for leisure use, housing or a command ship. Though it doesn't mention the ships in Pascagoula, they're the only ones that fit the bill. The Secretary of the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Aboard The U.S.S. Pork! | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...exercised options to buy 25,000 shares at $20.78 a share. The next day he exercised an additional 68,000 shares at $21.56. On both days, the stock closed around $36, which meant Lay netted nearly $1.5 million before taxes. He continued to be a huge booster for the stock for another month. As late as Sept. 26, Lay would try to reassure Enron employees that "our financial liquidity has never been stronger." But as the stock fell last fall, company employees were told that they would be unable to move any assets held in Enron stock into other securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Sign of the Crooked E | 1/19/2002 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Pentagon is hoping to hasten federal approval of another drug, 5-androstenediol, an immune-system booster that appears to protect mice from radiation. Still another medication, amifostine, is already used to protect the salivary glands of cancer patients during radiation treatment and could find applications in the terror wars as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This The Next Cipro? Not Quite | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...formula of Red Bull, some taste-bud-deficient late-night paper writers’ best friend, was first invented in 1987 by an Austrian company whose managing partner was inspired by drinks he saw in Asia. But energy drinks have multi-national appeal, from Brazil’s Black Booster to the Czech Republic’s Erectus, and the craze has now been picked up by mainstream American drink companies. The skinny aluminum cans just keep on coming...

Author: By J. S. Zdeb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: We'll PUMP You Up (for $3.99 a can) | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

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